The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1887-01-27
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FAMILIAR SCENES In THE Process
SION OF LOST Souls

We say familiar scenes, because things
have reached point in this country
where the most horrible spectacles i'm
aginable are not noticed with greater
shock than any other everyday occur
renee. The American people seem to be
rapidly approaching a condition of mind
which can look unconcernedly upon the
most frightful calamities and brutal
butchery of a human being is scarcely
given greater attention than change in
the weather. or any other trivial clrcum-
stance. We speak of the American peo-
pie, not as an entirety, but indicating the
National and State disregard of the dan
gers threatening the people on every
hand. This carelessness has permitted
the greatest curse on earth to get such a
firm hold upon the people themselves
that the effort to break loose must indeed
be strong one, to promise success.
Up at Fostoria, Ohio, lives a wealthy
and respectable family named Andes.
! This family contains Il son who has for
years been a wild, wayward, drinking
fellow, constantly heaping disgrace and
sorrow upon his friends. But this fellow
was good goose for the doggery-keeper
to pick. He had money, and the means
of obtaining money, and the Devils
Agent chuckled at the prayers of the
broken-hearted mother, as he filled her
boy with slops and emptied his pockets of
money. One night last week young
Andes was in Fostoria doggery, in
company with young man named Hill.
Both were drunk and began quarreling.
Hill found that he could not get Andes
mad by abusing him, so he began TRADE
of abuse of members of Andes family.
And we can say to our readers that a
doggery keeper will stand and laugh
until his mouth resembles a furrow in a
hillside, while drunken boy-whom he
has made drunk-curses his family-even
the mother who is praying for him.
Andes put up with this abuse until a
little spark of humanity shone through
the muddled condition of his brain, when
he seized beer-glass and hurled it at
Hill, striking him in the ear. Hill was
taken down, and grew worse until he
died.
Andes was arrested and placed in prison
on charge of murder, and his mother is
reported as being Frustrated with grief.
Here, then, as a summing up of this
one transaction, we have young man
sent unprepared into eternity, to meet
the wrath of an outraged and insulted
God, another young man in prison on a
charge that will either send him to the
gallows or a life-term in the Penitentiary,
mother almost killed with grief, COM
munity shocked, family in despair and
disgrace-and a bloated doggery-keeper
chuckling over his success in filling cash
orders at the Devils Market House This
is only one little scene in the great pic
ture There are thousands of such to be
seen all over the State of Ohio. 1t is not
pleasant one to contemplate. The re-
Election that nearly all such pictures
could be effaced from the history of the
State, and yet it is not done, does not
create within us as citizens very deep
regard for ourselves. The time has come,
it seems to us, when this curse of intem-
perance should be attacked, in battle to
the death, by every political party, every
church organization, every individual.
Not an intelligent man living but will
say there are innumerable evils resulting
from the horrible liquor traffic. Not an
intelligent man, perhaps, who will say,
that a single good feature results from it.
Their if it is all evil, and no good, where's
the use, or sense, in keeping it among us?
The idea that this horrible influence is to
be courted in politics, is sadly erroneous.
The drinking men themselves are not
slaves, politically speaking, to the fellows
who sell them liquor. The proper thing,
and the only safe thing, for the Republi-
can party to do. is to amend the Dow
Law so as to wipe ont the Agency" fea-
ture now existing, and enable the people
to do what majority really desire, either
drive it out by townships and counties,
or leave it. Do our Legislators think the
people are fools, that they will be dealt
with like a lot of monkeys in SO impor-
tant matter. Any sane man knows
that calling himself an agent" does not
improve the character of the doggery
keepers business. He is an A gent now
the Agent of the Devil. The people of
many localities desire to shut him out,
yet the men who declare that the present
Dow-Law must be the the end of legis-
lation in the premises, seem to think that
the great mass of intelligent voters in
Ohio are unable to see through the thin
temperance cloak thrown about the Dow
Law. The Law is all right, and popular,
so far as it goes. But, friends, let us say
to the people of Ohio that they shall have
nothing further, and there will be a
mighty awakening for us in the near
future. The Republican party cannot
afford to trife with so great a question as
granting the people the right to protect
their homes and their families.
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